Though this first English-language monograph on Ban's architecture can be a bit skimpy on factual detail -- one would like to know what fabric was used on the Curtain Wall House, for example -- it is a welcome introduction to an emerging talent who merits close attention.
At a time when English translations of monographs by the Annalistes were uncommon, Hobsbawm served as their man in London, fostering the sense that the New History was a single movement.
The Soleri revival is marked by the publication of four new books, including an English edition of a monograph, "Soleri: Architecture as a Human Ecology" (Monicelli Press).
As the first book-length monograph in English of a baffling, moving, and mysterious artist — "I create vertigo," Sturtevant said about herself — Hainley has written a splendid study not only of the artist's work but also of the atmosphere of change it helped foster.
While scholars were actively engaged in the preparation of relevant topics, the Preparatory Committee organized the translation of domestic representative papers and monographs into English, to help the international community understand Chinese ethnology and anthropology.
(For English-language survey monographs and articles on the Vienna Circle, see Kraft 1950, Jorgensen 1951, Ayer 1959b, Passmore 1967, Hanfling 1981, Stadler 1998, Richardson 2003. Particularly rich in background and bio-bibliographical materials is Stadler 1997 [2001]. The best short introductory book has remained untranslated: Haller 1993).
We used the Norwegian original along with the English counterpart of Synnestvedt's monograph (Synnestvedt 1869), two of the most important monographic works of the eighteenth century pertaining to the anatomical description of the bursae (Monro 1788, Rosenmüller 1799), and all versions of the official anatomical terminology (Final Report 1933, Donáth 1969, FCAT 1998).
Three years ago, the English translation of Piketty's monograph "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" became a surprise best-seller.
As part of our 2014 year in review, The New Yorker photo department highlights a selection of books that were featured this year on Photo… The monograph by the English artist Darren Almond is a twenty-first-century response to the U.K.'s long tradition of pastoral painting.
Philosophical literature in English amounted to a few monographs and a single collection of papers devoted solely, or largely, to questions to do with terrorism.
